Peru speeds up efforts to allow pomegranates and citrus fruits to enter the Thai market

Published 2024년 9월 19일

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The Peruvian government is working to expedite the export of pomegranates and citrus fruits to the Thai market by simplifying procedures and removing phytosanitary restrictions on blueberry exports. This comes as a result of negotiations with the Thai Department of Agriculture, aiming to include more Peruvian producers in the export process. Peruvian blueberries are already exported to Thailand, and efforts are being made to ensure they continue to meet Thai import requirements.

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The Government of Peru announced that the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation – MIDAGRI, through SENASA, is streamlining the procedures to ensure the access of pomegranates and citrus fruits to the Thai market, in addition to ensuring that no further phytosanitary restrictions are applied to the export of blueberries to this destination. With the support of the Ambassador of Peru, Cecilia Galarreta, the national head of SENASA, Vilma Gutarra García, her technical team and representatives of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry met in Thailand with the authorities of the Department of Agriculture (DOA) with the aim of promoting agreements so that pomegranate and citrus producers can send their products to this new destination in the short term. In the case of pomegranates, the DOA has been developing the Pest Risk Analysis (ARP) and, at the same time, SENASA presented the cold treatment study that was carried out with the authority of China in order to expedite the ...

Source: Senasa